Remove Animations in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

Learn to remove animations from slide objects in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Author:Geetesh Bajaj

Product/Version: PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

OS: Windows XP and higher

Date Created: April 25, 2012Last Updated: April 25, 2012

Removing an animation is a simple select-and-click option, but even before you remove any animation, do ascertain
why you want to remove it. Here are some obvious scenarios that result in removing animations:

Do you want to remove both the animation and the slide object that is animated?

Or do you want to just remove the animation, and let the slide object be?

Or maybe you don't want to remove the animation or the slide object, you just want to change the animation?

Here are the answers:

If you chose 1, then you need not read the rest of this tutorial. Just delete the slide object such as a shape,
and any animation added to that object is gone too.

Access the Animations tab of the
Ribbon, and within the Animation
gallery, click the None option (shown highlighted in red in
Figure 1).

Figure 1: None option to be selected to remove the animation

Do you have more than one animation assigned to the selected slide object (see the shape with multiple
animations, highlighted in blue in Figure 2 below)? You can remove
a particular animation from within the Animation Pane. To bring up the Animation Pane,
first access the Animations tab of the
Ribbon. Then locate the
Advanced Animation group, and click the Animation Pane button, as shown highlighted in
red in Figure 2.

Within the Animation Pane, select the animation you want to remove. Right-click the selected
animation to bring up a drop-down list, and choose the Remove option (highlighted in
red in Figure 4).

Figure 4: Remove option to be selected

Alternatively, select the animation to be removed in the Animation Pane and hit the
Delete key on the keyboard. If you removed the wrong animation by mistake, quickly press the
Ctrl+Z shortcut key to undo.

Save your presentation.

Tip: Do you want to remove all animations from your slides? Is there a magic button somewhere in
PowerPoint that can get rid of all animations all together? Yes, you can do this easily in PowerPoint using some simple
VBA code, says John Wilson --
read more.